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Thirst-day Exhibit 16: The Broken Story
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that’s art. – Alejandro González Iñárritu The structure is intrinsic to any art form. Most often the underlying structure defines the genre like modern jazz in music, Haiku in poetry or a three-act play in a theatre. […]

Short Post, Found Content: 24X36
Last week I found this is a charming movie (trailer) that documents the illustrated movie posters. We have had a history of fabulous promotional art for our movies. While some are documented, most of them are not. This is also an appeal to share information on movie hoardings and poster art that are documented in […]

Thirst-day Exhibit 15: The Smile of Saraswati
While the film Life of Christ was rolling past before my eyes I was mentally visualizing the gods, Shri Krishna, Shri Ramachandra their Gokul and Ayodhya.. I was gripped by a strange spell. -Dadasaheb Phalke The school textbooks were stacked up. There was a picture of Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge with a benign smile. […]

Thirst-day Exhibit 13: Parallel Cinema
While we were leading a rather sedate life in the 70s, the new Indira Gandhi cabinet of 1980 decide to bring colour television to our homes for the Asiad Games. My father bought one in 1983. So as a teen I was exposed to a new kind of cinema in the early eighties, typically broadcast […]

Thirst-day Exhibit 12: Jamini Roy
I recently learned about an important feature that distinguishes us human beings, right on top with our opposable thumbs and standing upright – the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex, among many things it does, enables us to simulate experiences. Or in other words, it helps us create narratives or tell stories. And we human beings […]

Thirst-day Exhibit 09: The Coup Connection
A friend and a teacher once told me that creativity is about finding connections between things that are not seemingly related. The rational part of my mind dismissed this as superficial and vaguely self-indulgent. But I present you a case where I found a movie, a book and a song inspired by one event – […]

4 more Graphic Design Tools that are forgotten #DesignNostalgia
Dear millennial designer (Now you know who you are): If you have not read the prequel, you should. Apparently, I woke the geriatric ward up when I published the previous post and my fellow designers were swept in a tsunami of nostalgia. All the design tools in this post are their suggestions and I thank […]

Thirst-day Exhibit 06: William Klein
We need to put the thirst back in design professionals to be aware, appreciative and understand art. So my Thursday posts are going to be about the artists who inspired me. Now, to photography as an art form. I don’t roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my […]

4 Graphic Design tools that are forgotten: #DesignNostalgia
Dear millennial designer (If you know what one-hour photos are you do not qualify, and no, it is not the maximum number of selfies taken in 60 minutes): I am going to wake you up to some reality of yore that you probably will not enjoy. You need to sit down for this one. Right […]

Thirst-day Exhibit 05: Dadaism
We need to put the thirst back in design professionals to be aware, appreciative and understand art. So my Thursday posts are going to be about the artists who inspired me. This post is about an art movement that disrupted art. It was 1916. The First World War was over and it had left Europe […]